Brave Combat Federation, also known as Brave CF, is a mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion in Bahrain. It was established on 23 September 2016 by Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa and is currently the biggest organization in the Middle East, as well as one of the fastest-rising MMA properties in the world. [1]
This list is an up-to-date roster of those fighters currently under contract with the Brave CF brand. Fighters are organized by weight class and within their weight class by their number of fights with the promotion.
Each fight record has four categories: wins, losses, draws, and no-contests. All fight records in this article are displayed in that order, with fights resulting in a no-contest listed in parentheses.
Brave Combat Federation adopted a new weight class for 2019: Super Lightweight (165 lbs), and also increased the weight limit of the Welterweight class to 175 lbs. [2]
ISO | Name | Nickname | MMA record | BRAVE record | Year of Last BRAVE fight |
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Pavel Dailidko (C) | The Experiment | 9–2 | 5–1 | 2024 | |
Luka Podkrajšek | 5–1 | 2–1 | 2024 | ||
Haris Aksalič | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2024 | ||
Patryk Dubiela | 6–3 | 1–1 | 2024 | ||
ISO | Name | Nickname | MMA record | BRAVE record | Year of Last BRAVE fight |
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Erko Jun (C) | The Bounty Hunter | 9–2 | 3–0 | 2024 | |
Mohamed Said Maalem | L'Ambiance | 13–6 (1) | 3–3 (1) | 2024 | |
Rasul Magomedov | 6–0 | 3–0 | 2024 | ||
ISO | Name | Nickname | MMA record | BRAVE record | Year of Last BRAVE fight |
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Noach Blyden | 5–1 | 2–0 | 2024 | ||
ISO | Name | Nickname | MMA record | BRAVE record | Year of Last BRAVE fight |
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Luiz Cado (C) | Golden Boy | 18–7–1 | 4–0 | 2024 | |
Ahmed Labban | The Shadow | 13–6 | 4–2 | 2023 | |
Kamal Magomedov | 11–1 | 3–1 | 2024 | ||
Marcin Bandel | Bomba | 22–8–1 | 3–1 | 2023 | |
Eliezer Kubanza | 6–0 | 3–0 | 2024 | ||
Alex Lohoré | Da Killa King | 25–10 | 2–0 | 2024 | |
Chequina Nos Pedro | 9–4 | 1–0 | 2024 | ||
ISO | Name | Nickname | MMA record | BRAVE record | Year of Last BRAVE fight |
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Eldar Eldarov (C) | Khan | 14–1 | 6–0 | 2022 | |
Abbas Khan | 7–3 | 4–2 | 2024 | ||
Mahmoud Fawzy | Prince of Egypt | 6–2 | 3–0 | 2023 | |
Murad Guseinov | 8–0 | 2–0 | 2024 | ||
Khamzat Maaev | Borz | 5–1 | 2–1 | 2024 | |
Domen Drnovsek | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2024 |
ISO | Name | Nickname | MMA record | BRAVE record | Year of Last BRAVE fight |
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Abdysalam Kubanychbek (C) | Omok | 22–3 (1) | 8–0 (1) | 2024 | |
Lucas Martins | Mineiro | 22–7 | 4–4 | 2023 | |
Olzhas Eskaraev | Kypshak | 15–7 | 3–2 | 2023 | |
Kamil Magomedov | 16–4 | 2–3 | 2023 | ||
Ramazan Gitinov | 5–0 | 3–0 | 2024 | ||
Christian Mach | 8–5 | 1–2 | 2024 | ||
Ruslan Tedeev | 13–4 | 0–2 | 2023 | ||
ISO | Name | Nickname | MMA record | BRAVE record | Year of Last BRAVE fight |
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Nemat Abdrashitov (C) | Eagle | 19–8 | 4–0 | 2023 | |
Omar Solomonov | 12–3 | 3–1 | 2024 | ||
Roman Bogatov | 13–2 | 3–1 | 2023 | ||
Izzeddine Al Derbani | The Palestinian Samurai | 14–4 | 1–2 | 2024 | |
ISO | Name | Nickname | MMA record | BRAVE record | Year of Last BRAVE fight |
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Nkosi Ndebele (C) | King | 8–2 | 8–2 | 2024 | |
Jose Torres | Shorty | 12–3–1 | 4–2–1 | 2024 | |
Magomed Idrisov | 10–2 | 3–2 | 2024 | ||
Abdulla Al Yaqoob | Eto | 5–0 | 4–0 | 2023 | |
Borislav Nikolić | 10–2 | 2–2 | 2023 | ||
Gerard Burns | 6–1 | 3–0 | 2024 | ||
Ali Guliev | Black Wolf | 7–1 | 2–1 | 2023 | |
Nicholas Hwende | 8–1 | 2–1 | 2024 | ||
Mojtaba Nasiri | The Soldier Panther | 5–3 | 2–0 | 2024 | |
Khurshed Nazarov | 9–1–1 | 0–1 | 2024 | ||
ISO | Name | Nickname | MMA record | BRAVE record | Year of Last BRAVE fight |
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Velimurad Alkhasov | 9–1 (1) | 5–1 | 2023 | ||
Muhammad Mokaev | The Punisher | 13–0 (1) | 5–0 | 2021 | |
Zach Makovsky | Fun Size | 21–12 | 1–3 | 2023 | |
Edilceu Alves | Para-Raio | 15–3 | 2–1 | 2023 | |
Mohamed Alsameea | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2023 | ||
Bidzina Gavashelishvili | 13–3 | 1–0 | 2023 | ||
Nikolay Atanasov | 4–0 | 0–0 | |||
ISO | Name | Nickname | MMA record | BRAVE record | Year of Last BRAVE fight |
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Monika Kučinič | Pitbull | 5–2 | 3–0 | 2024 |
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